[Cobra]

yeah, but then you have crappy values for the ships and the schockwaves don't show up properly.

[BlackDove]

They show up very well for me.

Everything is by default, aside from the old blue being replaced by the new blue.

Which is really - the point.

[DaBrain]

Originally posted by Ghost
Your "final release" does not work, although it would appear that you've already been informed of this by a few people.

To those that it does work for, screw you.

I keep getting table/model errors saying something about the Ulysses, and then when I get into the game, the only ship available is the Ulysses.

Well, it is "final". There's nothing more I could change.

Cobra is right. Using the effect without the tables will screw up the timing. It will use the values for the stock shockwave, which had less frames and a different fps rate. Upcomming FS2_open builds will probably fix this to some extent, but the tables are optimized by hand, so the values are pretty much perfect. Automatism can't really match this. It's a great feature though. Especially for mods.

BTW the fighter shockwaves won't work without the tables...

[BlackDove]

Yeah, I don't really want them to, considering neither FS had the fighters release shockwaves. For a reason.

Personal preference here

[DaBrain]

Yeah, I think it's just cool.

It helps to make FS2 a bit more 'modern'.

[Ghost]

Error: ships.tbl(178):
Error: Required token = [$AI Class:], found [$Shockwave Model:               ]
in ship: GTF Ulysses.

File:U:\src\cvs\fs2_open.testing\code\Parse\PARSELO.CPP
Line: 528
[This filename points to the location of a file on the computer that built this executable]

Call stack:
------------------------------------------------------------------
    required_string()    find_and_stuff()    parse_ship()    parse_shiptbl()    ship_init()    game_init()    WinMainSub()    WinMain()    WinMainCRTStartup()    kernel32.dll 77e8141a()
------------------------------------------------------------------



Would someone help me out here? What am I doing wrong?

[karajorma]

Not running a recent enough build most likely. Try something newer.

[watsisname]

I just tried the firey 3d shockwaves and WOW!  Many many thanks to DaBrain for his hard work.  
I am having a problem, however.  If I use the ships.tbl file, then I cannot place primary cannons on a Herc Mark 2.  (Possibly other ships that I have not found yet.)  They are greyed out and it says that a Herc Mark 2 can not hold those weapons, which it totally should.  The problem goes away if I get rid of the ships.tbl file.  
Anyone know how to fix this?

*I am not sure if this is relevant or not, but I did rename the shockwave names in the maps directory as a bug fix that was mentioned earlier.  (To make the shockwaves appear rather than just a flare effect)  Perhaps doing that causes problems in the tbl file?*


What should I do?

[Fenrir]

I assume you actually had the bug where the flare only appeared?

Are you running this with another mod installed to the same folder, or with one in a different folder with the -mod command line?

[watsisname]

Yeah, it was the bug with only the flare-up effect appearing, and I fixed that up by altering the names of in the data\maps directory of FS2.  (This bug fix was mentioned earlier on this thread).  

This new bug (Primaries not usable on Herc Mark-2 and possibly other ships) is most definately caused by the ships.tbl, as when I remove only that file, I can use primaries again.  Of course, I want the table there so that the effect is timed correctly.  I just hope that I do not have to go alter it manualy, as I am NOT a modder by any means.  
Did anyone else find this problem?  Also, does anyone know if using the blue shockwaves would fix it?  If not then I would just go ahead and install those, as I like the blue ones better anyway.

Oh, and I do not have any mods that could be causing this, so that's not an issue here.

Thanks for any help.

[watsisname]

Update:
I tried using blue shockwaves, and I have the same problem as before (Can't use primaries).  I also get only the flare appearing, like before, but this time that bug-fix doesn't work at all.  For now I'm sticking with the golden fiery shockwaves, without using the ships.tbl.  It's still a pretty impressive display.

[Hudson]

^ that is now offically pwnt

Great work, I love the blue ones!

[Ghost]

So is there any way to make the shockwaves not cut off after like 2 seconds of awesome? I get the bigass flare, a couple shockwaves, and then they just disappear instead of fading. It ruins the moment for me.

[Kie99]

Originally posted by DaBrain
Done.

Blue 3d shockwave release!

Super-High-End blue download (22 MB)

High-End blue download (8 MB)

Mid-Range blue download (2 MB)

Low-End blue download (250 KB)

I don't know which version to get, I have an NVIDIA Radeon 5200 (128MB) with 512MB of RAM.  I've currently got Mid-End, would High work for me?

[Hudson]

Originally posted by Ghost
So is there any way to make the shockwaves not cut off after like 2 seconds of awesome? I get the bigass flare, a couple shockwaves, and then they just disappear instead of fading. It ruins the moment for me.

Aye, I would also like theme to last a little longer

[karajorma]

Edit the shockwave speed in the ships.tbl then.

You'll have to do it for every ship though.

[Ghost]

That's not quite what I meant, I don't think. On my machine, it's like the .eff animation isn't complete? It's not taking advantage of the other 2/3rds of the shockwave frames.

[DaBrain]

Originally posted by Ghost
So is there any way to make the shockwaves not cut off after like 2 seconds of awesome? I get the bigass flare, a couple shockwaves, and then they just disappear instead of fading. It ruins the moment for me.

Well, sounds like some frames got screwed up. You got either a broken download, or you used the old effect and forgot to remove all frames.

Anyway, just way for the next Media VP. The effect will be included.

Originally posted by kietotheworld


I don't know which version to get, I have an NVIDIA Radeon 5200 (128MB) with 512MB of RAM.  I've currently got Mid-End, would High work for me?

You can try the high-end one, but I think the mid-range effect should work better. Your card has enough ram, but it could be a bit faster.

[Ghost]

Alright, I can wait for it. Is there an ETA for the next VP set?

[Fenrir]

I wouldn't wait... I'd try deleting everything shockwave related and re-downloading it, including the cache since the shockwave model gets  indexed there.